The architecture of the well-tempered environment / Reyner Banham.
By: Banham, Reyner
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BookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 319 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0226036987 .Subject(s): Buildings -- Environmental engineeringDDC classification: 720.4
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending | 720.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00176033 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
UCC Fund.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Unwarrented apology
- 2 Environmental management
- 3 A dark satanic century
- 4 The kit of parts: heat and light
- 5 Environments of large buildings
- 6 The well-tempered home
- 7 The environment of the machine aesthetic
- 8 Machines à habiter
- 9 Towards full control
- 10 Concealed power
- 11 Exposed power
- 12 A range of methods
- 13 A breath of intelligence
- Readings in environmental technology
- Photo credits
- Index